Dogs chewing furniture of their owner--am I liable for replacing it?
I have seen a lot of posts about dogs chewing/eating the furniture of their dog sitter while staying at their sitter's house; however, I have had a hard time tracking down information about dogs chewing the furniture of their owner while a sitter is staying at the house to watch them. I am caring for two dogs, one of which will occasionally chew a chair leg (or, on one occasion, the wall molding). The damage she leaves is never more than the size of my pinky nail and is only really noticeable because their owner moved recently so her furniture is mostly new and untouched. If the furniture were a bit older and more beaten up I would feel comfortable just chalking this up to a hidden cost of dog ownership, but because it's all so new I am not sure what to do.
So far it's only happened three times total (usually I hear the chewing sounds coming from under the table where I'm working and it just takes a moment for me to remember to check that they are chewing on a toy and not the chair leg). The dogs are always crated when I am out of the house or asleep and are generally with me whenever I am home, so this isn't a case of me just leaving them unsupervised for long periods of time.
I kind of figure that this is damage that would have happened regardless of whether it was me or their owner caring for them, so I am not inclined to offer to pay for furniture repairs (I am not sure whether this is even a possibility given the small size of the chips the dog took off), but I am wondering if anyone else has experience with this and has some best practices for handling things like this. Does anyone have experience with something like this and how did you handle it?